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...according to the Diary of George Moore, a senior, "The class are up in arms against their Instructor, Mr. Durkin, and the Government." That night at Chapel services, which the College rules required everyone to attend, the Freshmen disrupted the proceedings by constantly scraping their feet, and throwing out firecrackers. The attention of the President became riveted on the Freshmen, but his only response to their outburst was a high rise in temper...
...meantime, the large majority of Freshmen, now joined by several upperclassmen, continued their original and more mild tactics of disrupting both the morning and evening Chapel services. To add a voice to their noise, the Freshmen called a class meeting to discuss the incidents...
...were there 2000 people in the Harvard chapel the next day? Because Harvard's number one in the nation, that's why--you can't have the police coming in and pushing people around. But those people in the chapel don't care about what Harvard's doing--they're all going on to get their degrees and make their money...
...cars carrying President Nixon and former President Johnson, set out from the station. It passed along Buckeye Avenue and stopped at the Eisenhower Center, a complex of buildings that includes the Eisenhower Library and the museum, the home where Ike grew up, and the Place of Meditation, a nondenominational chapel where he chose to be buried. After the rites, the flag that had covered the casket was care fully folded and handed to the general's wife of 52 years with the traditional military words: "This flag is presented to you on behalf of a grateful nation...
...Army Medical Center and the seemingly endless ordeal of the funeral, Mrs. Eisenhower, 72, nevertheless managed to retain her composure. She gave way to tears only occasionally. About two hours after the interment, when the last of the official visitors had departed, she returned unobtrusively to the small chapel. There she placed yellow gladioli on her husband's crypt and yellow chrysanthemums on the nearby tomb of her first born son, Doud Dwight, who died at the age of three...